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Analytical skills |
Identify the ability to identify a concept or problem to isolate its component parts to organize information for decision to establish criteria for evaluation and to draw conclusions. |
Scientific steps |
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Deducted reasoning
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Deriving the consequences from the facts using series of logical steps |
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Eyewitnesses |
A person who has seen someone or something and can communicate these facts |
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Forensic |
Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions |
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Chain of custody |
The documented and unbroken transfer of the evidence |
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Circumstantial evidence |
(Indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not to prove it directly |
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Class evidence |
Material that connects an individual to a certain group |
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Crime scene investigation |
A multidisciplinary approach in which scientific and legal professional work together to solve a crime |
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Crime scene reconstruction |
A hypothesis of the sequence of events from before the crime was committed through the commission |
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Direct evidence |
Evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact such as an eyewitness account of a crime |
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First responder |
The first police officer to arrive at the crime scene |
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Individual evidence |
A kind of evidence that identifies a particular person or thing |
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Paper bindle |
A folded paper used to hold trace evidence |
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Primary crime scene |
The location where the crime took place |
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Secondary crime scene |
The location other than the primary crime scene but in some way related to the crime |
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Trace evidence |
Small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at crime scene |
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Comparison microscope |
A compound microscope that allows the side by side comparison of the samples such as hair |
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Cortex |
The region of a hair located outside the the medulla containing granules such as of hair |
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Cuticle |
The tough outer covering of a hair composed of overlapping scales |
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Hair follicle |
The tough outer cover covering of a hair composed of overlapping scales |
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Keratin |
A type of fibrous protein |
A type of fibrous protein that makes up the majority of the cortex of hair. |
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Medulla |
The central core of a hair fiber |
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Neutron activation analysis |
A method of analysis that determines composition of elements in a sample |
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Amorphous |
Without a defined shape; fibers composed of polymers that are soft, elastic, and absorbing |
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Direct transfer |
The passing of evidence such as fiber, from victim, to suspect or vise versa |
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Crystalline |
Regularly shaped; fibers composed of polymers packed side by side, which made it stiff and strong |
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Fiber |
The smallest indivisible unit of a textile, it must be at least 100 times longer than wide. |
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Angiosperm |
A flowering plant that produces seeds with in a fruit |
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Keratin |
A type of fibrous protein |
A type of fibrous protein that makes up the majority of the cortex of hair. |
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Gymnosperm |
A plant with naked seeds that are spore evidence to help solve criminal cases. |
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Pistil |
The female reproductive part of the flower and spore evidence to help solve crime cases. |
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Pollen finger print; |
Also called a pollen profile the number and type of pollen grains found in a geographic area at a particular time of year |
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Pollen grain |
A reproductive structure that contains the males gametes of seed plant |
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Stamen |
The male reproductive part of the flower consisting of the anther and filament where pollen is produced |
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Medulla |
The central core of a hair fiber |
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Neutron activation analysis |
A method of analysis that determines composition of elements in a sample |
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Amorphous |
Without a defined shape; fibers composed of polymers that are soft, elastic, and absorbing |
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Direct transfer |
The passing of evidence such as fiber, from victim, to suspect or vise versa |
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Crystalline |
Regularly shaped; fibers composed of polymers packed side by side, which made it stiff and strong |
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Fiber |
The smallest indivisible unit of a textile, it must be at least 100 times longer than wide. |
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Angiosperm |
A flowering plant that produces seeds with in a fruit |
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Exine |
Outer layer of the wall of a pollen grain or spore |
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Forensic palynology |
The use of pollen and spore evidence to help solve criminal cases |
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